Will Swansea City create history by beating Napoli in the Europa League?

And so the suitcase is packed and for the third time personally and the sixth time overall this season, the Jack Army is heading off on its latest European tour – and this time the destination is Italy.

And after last week’s showing we head there with confidence that we can spring one of the upsets in Europe this season and topple the side that were in with a whisker of qualifying for the last 16 of the Champions League.

Few would have given us a chance of qualification when the draw was made back in December but having been able to consider ourselves massively unlucky in the home leg last week, we can head to Naples knowing that we have a chance of pulling off the result and taking us into the last 16 of the competition.

We know of course it won’t be easy but the performances shown by the side in the past few weeks has to have us believing that we can pull this off and we know that the team is more than capable of giving Napoli more than a fright whether it be on their home patch or as we did last week at the Liberty.

We know that an away goal will pile the pressure on them and with a good turnout of Jacks making the trip, then the side will also be backed vocally amongst one of the most hostile atmospheres we have probably ever played in.

Swansea showed so much promise in the first leg (Picture: Getty)

Garry Monk will have the side fired up for the game and I expect him to name a pretty much full strength team for the game despite a vital league game coming up on the horizon when Crystal Palace arrive in South Wales on Sunday. Given though we have a break thanks to Arsenal’s progression in the FA Cup after the Palace match, the squad can survive the two games before that break and who knows whether we will have more European trips to come.

The advice from the club is of course to stay safe to all of those also heading out to Italy and if this is the end of the road in Europe it has been a great adventure and I don’t think any of us will forget the memories that this season has created on the road. I know that I will never forget the win in Valencia last September but a win in Naples on Thursday night will just top that off for me and make this the greatest trip I have ever been on.